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American workers feel alienated, helpless and overwhelmed – here's one way to alleviate their malaise

  • Written by Alec Stubbs, Postdoctoral Fellow of Philosophy, UMass Boston
American workers feel alienated, helpless and overwhelmed – here's one way to alleviate their malaiseLabor-saving technologies have not afforded workers more leisure time.Pict Rider/iStock via Getty Images

First it was the “Great Resignation.” Then it was “nobody wants to work anymore.” Now it’s “quiet quitting.”

Yet it seems like no one wants to talk about what I see as the root cause of America’s...

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